10-Gb/s transmission of 1.55-μm directly modulated signal over 100 km of negative dispersion fiber

Author

Tomkos, I. ; Hallock, B. ; Roudas, I. ; Hesse, R. ; Boskovic, A. ; Nakano, J. ; Vodhanel, R.

Author_Institution

Photonics Res. & Test Center, Corning Inc., Somerset, NJ, USA

Volume

13

Issue

7

fYear

2001

fDate

7/1/2001 12:00:00 AM

Firstpage

735

Lastpage

737

Abstract

The largest transmission distance (100 km) ever reported for a commercially available 10-Gb/s 1.55-μm directly modulated signal over a single fiber link without using any dispersion compensation is demonstrated. The achieved dispersion-length product for a Q-factor greater than 9.4 dB (bit-error rate less than 10/sup -15/) was about 750 ps/nm. The fiber that enabled such long transmission distance with high dispersion tolerance is a nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber that has negative dispersion in the entire usable bandwidth (1280-1620 nm) and is optimized for operation with directly modulated lasers. The excellent single-channel transmission performance that we achieved can be expected also from wavelength-division-multiplexed systems with channels across the erbium-doped fiber amplifier bands.

Keywords

Q-factor; compensation; optical fibre communication; optical fibre dispersion; optical modulation; telecommunication signalling; wavelength division multiplexing; 1.55 mum; 1.55-/spl mu/m directly modulated signal; 10 Gbit/s; 100 km; 1280 to 1620 nm; Gb/s 1.55-/spl mu/m directly modulated signal; Gb/s transmission; Q-factor; bit-error rate; directly modulated lasers; dispersion-length product; erbium-doped fiber amplifier bands; high dispersion tolerance; long transmission distance; negative dispersion; negative dispersion fiber; nonzero dispersion-shifted fiber; single fiber link; single-channel transmission performance; transmission distance; usable bandwidth; wavelength-division-multiplexed systems; Bandwidth; Bit error rate; Chirp modulation; Costs; Erbium-doped fiber amplifier; Erbium-doped fiber lasers; Optical fiber communication; Optical fiber dispersion; Power generation; Wavelength division multiplexing;

fLanguage

English

Journal_Title

Photonics Technology Letters, IEEE

Publisher

ieee

ISSN

1041-1135

Type

jour

DOI

10.1109/68.930431

Filename

930431